The content owners are sadly stuck in the mindset of trying to roll the calendar back to the day when no one could rip dvd's (and before that cds) due to technical limitations. Stupid and greedy.
If they were *smart* and greedy they would realize that what the customer wants is access to the whole catalog - on demand. And cheaply.
How to do this? Well setting up a server farm to stream the data would be a good start - but how to convince people to stream content from their servers instead of using p2p to access illegal sources?
Easy. Make it cheaper/easier to stream the content from a legal source rather than from an illegal source by working out a deal with ISP's so that data streamed from the legal servers costs less per Gb than 'normal' internet access. Cut the ISP's in for a peice of the action and they will help *encourage* streaming from legal sources.
As a side effect, currently existing pirated content sitting on the net becomes cost *un* effective. Then only a moron would pirate a movie via p2p for more than the cost of streaming from the legal sources. Remember most people only watch a movie/show once so the benefit of downloading for multiple views is not worth the extra cost .
Bingo - piracy obsoleted, content owners and ISP's a have a new market that easy to manage and exploit, old content becomes valuable again and the customer gets what they want.
The best I have seen is about 98% for a permanent-magnet DC motor. Typically one can expect >80% for a good motor/controller combo when operated in the high-efficiency regime of the motor.
Well I have an adatptec 1200A and I found that while it can mirror or stripe disks, it is painfully slow.
I ran some tests comparing disk I/O on my systems built in IDE controller vs the performance of two drives in a striping config on the 1200A.
The RAID config was slower by about 50%!
I contacted Adaptec support with the info for my system config and they responded that they were not surprised at the results. The main point being that the Adaptec card being a PCI card is substantially handicapped vs some IDE controllers integrated on the motherboard.
To their credit, Adaptec has offered to refund my money. But my advice for people is to just use software RAID and avoid these low-end RAID cards, its cheaper and quite possibly faster.
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The content owners are sadly stuck in the mindset of trying to roll the calendar back to the day when no one could rip dvd's (and before that cds) due to technical limitations. Stupid and greedy.
If they were *smart* and greedy they would realize that what the customer wants is access to the whole catalog - on demand. And cheaply.
How to do this? Well setting up a server farm to stream the data would be a good start - but how to convince people to stream content from their servers instead of using p2p to access illegal sources?
Easy. Make it cheaper/easier to stream the content from a legal source rather than from an illegal source by working out a deal with ISP's so that data streamed from the legal servers costs less per Gb than 'normal' internet access. Cut the ISP's in for a peice of the action and they will help *encourage* streaming from legal sources.
As a side effect, currently existing pirated content sitting on the net becomes cost *un* effective.
Then only a moron would pirate a movie via p2p for more than the cost of streaming from the legal sources.
Remember most people only watch a movie/show once so the benefit of downloading for multiple views is not worth the extra cost .
Bingo - piracy obsoleted, content owners and ISP's a have a new market that easy to manage and exploit, old content becomes valuable again and the customer gets what they want.
The new DVD's will contain both the original and the remastered versions.
Purists and techno geeks would both be happy.
Agreed.
The best I have seen is about 98% for a permanent-magnet DC motor.
Typically one can expect >80% for a good motor/controller combo when operated in the high-efficiency regime of the motor.
Still better than IC.
You missed one:
Windows v. Linux, quickest from running system to blank disk.
72%???
How did you manage that? I make way over the national average wage and paid less than 30% in taxes.
The highest -marginal- tax rate combining federal and provincial taxes is just under 49%.
Your 72% claim sounds a bit bogus to me...
Well I have an adatptec 1200A and I found that while it can mirror or stripe disks, it is painfully slow.
I ran some tests comparing disk I/O on my systems built in IDE controller vs the performance of two drives in a striping config on the 1200A.
The RAID config was slower by about 50%!
I contacted Adaptec support with the info for my system config and they responded that they were not surprised at the results. The main point being that the Adaptec card being a PCI card is substantially handicapped vs some IDE controllers integrated on the motherboard.
To their credit, Adaptec has offered to refund my money. But my advice for people is to just use software RAID and avoid these low-end RAID cards, its cheaper and quite possibly faster.
Strange, I thought Ballard Power systems was in Vancouver B.C. Canada (not USA as indicated).
Did the border move while I was celebrating the new year?
:-)